combined with the demand for shark fin as a status food item and the poor enforcement at many points in the supply chain, are the main factors driving the illegal trade. The fins of some species, such ...

He has even dressed up as a killer whale, complete with towering black dorsal fin ... the hammerhead the third most dangerous species after the great white and the tiger shark.

Young girls could be heard screaming as the shark approached the shoreline at speed with its fin sticking out of the ... and the authorities.’ Most hammerhead species are considered harmless ...

These majestic sharks gather in their hundreds at huge volcanic seamounts that project out of the seabed. They come here to be cleaned and to find a mate, circling the seamount in a sort of ...

Great hammerhead sharks are known for their long migrations, but scientists have now discovered that some individuals in the Bahamas instead spend all year snacking without leaving their plentiful ...

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Workers at Dong Gang Fish Market in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, routinely process thousands of frozen shark fins a day to service the growing international demand for shark-fin soup. Once a delicacy ... dusky ...

I was once at the surface playing low-frequency sounds over a speaker to attract sharks. A hammerhead shot up from beneath me, rushing at me at perhaps 30 feet a second before he suddenly turned ...

A fisherman was casting his line into shallow water off the Texas coast when a huge hammerhead shark emerged from below, TikTok video shows. Jason Schilling shared the video May 24, capturing the ...